Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

But though empires, like all the other works of men, have all hitherto proved mortal, yet every empire aims at immortality.

The natural price, therefore, is, as it were, the central price, to which the prices of all commodities are continually gravitating.

I have no faith in political arithmetic.

I am always willing to run some hazard of being tedious, in order to be sure that I am perspicuous; and, after taking the utmost pains that I can to be perspicuous, some obscurity may still appear to remain upon a subject, in its own nature extremely abstracted.

We are but one of the multitude, in no respect better than any other in it.

In this consists the difference between the character of a miser and that of a person of exact economy and assiduity. The one is anxious about small matters for their own sake; the other attends to them only in consequence of the scheme of life which he has laid down to himself.